48 h. ago Pole dancer is set to win planning battle to keep dance studio at her £700,000 bungalow despite angry neighbours' complaints over 'grunting and loud noise'

Samilou Saunders has been battling 'generational bias' from neighbours in the town who are against her business.

Economics

2 w. ago Loud noise heard for miles after 'controlled explosion' at university

Disposal of the 'volatile and explosive' chemical could be heard from miles away

Events

2 w. ago UK pub rocked by huge earthquake as 'beds were shaking' and 'deep shudder' felt

The earthquake struck at 1.36am this morning and was felt at a depth of 5km down, measuring a whopping (for this country) 2.5 on the Richter Scale, with reports of shaking and loud noises made

Politics

2 w. ago Deaf President Now! review – stirring record of student protest

Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it‘It’s awfully difficult to talk above this loud noise,” says the chair of the board of trustees at a liberal arts university. It’s the late 1980s, protesting students have shut down the campus and now, midway through a tense meeting, someone has set off the fire alarm. But here’s the thing, Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world’s first deaf university. The students can have a conversation just fine with the alarms blaring – in sign language. But trustee chair Jane Bassett Spilman does not sign. In fact, she appears to be completely ignorant about deaf culture – and, dressed like a Margaret Thatcher lookalike, all handbags and helmet hair, she is the easy-to-loathe villain of this fascinating documentary.Co-directed by actor and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco with Davis Guggenheim, this is the story of an eight-day student protest at Gallaude...

Politics

2 w. ago Deaf President Now! review – passion and energy in stirring record of student protest

Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it‘It’s awfully difficult to talk above this loud noise,” says the chair of the board of trustees at a liberal arts university. It’s the late 1980s, protesting students have shut down the campus and now, midway through a tense meeting, someone has set off the fire alarm. But here’s the thing, Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world’s first deaf university. The students can have a conversation just fine with the alarms blaring – in sign language. But trustee chair Jane Bassett Spilman does not sign. In fact, she appears to be completely ignorant about deaf culture – and, dressed like a Margaret Thatcher lookalike, all handbags and helmet hair, she is the easy-to-loathe villain of this fascinating documentary.Co-directed by actor and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco with Davis Guggenheim, this is the story of an eight-day student protest at Gallaude...

Politics

3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon objects to Glasgow flat used for 'sex parties' being granted HMO licence

Neighbours say they were forced to listen to "loud sex noises" at the plush Strathbungo property.

Politics